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BBC Health News: 01-13-2005
The checks couples wanting IVF have to undergo to ensure they are fit to be parents are being overhauled.
Binmen could be equipped to provide emergency care to heart attack patients under plans being considered.
A baby who underwent a record eight organ transplants has died a month after returning home.
The UK Chancellor Gordon Brown urges the world's rich nations to step up the fight against the Aids epidemic.
More and more people are buying self-help books, online retailer Amazon says.
Children living near a Russian space launch station suffer higher rates of disease, a journal reports.
The food in a typical child's lunchbox is still packed with saturated fat, salt and sugar, a survey has found.
Politicians in the Australian state of Victoria are asked to donate sperm to replenish dwindling supplies.
A tribunal awards a nurse who was jailed and struck off for abusing the elderly, £15,000 in compensation.
A senior consultant at a hospital hit by bed shortages says patients' lives are at risk unless extra funding is found.
More people can be expected to be struck down with flu-like illnesses over the next few weeks, say experts.
People should limit eating liver to once a week and be careful about other sources of vitamin A, say food experts.
A doctor who gave shoppers leaflets criticising NHS management over cuts is suspended.
Two thirds of Scots believe pubs should be able to accommodate smokers, a survey says.
Volunteers are to be 'burnt' by scientists to see if faith eases pain.
There is unlikely to be a large number of deaths in the UK from the human form of mad cow disease, researchers say.
A man who was wrongly told he had just 12 months to live is awarded over £190,000 in compensation.
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A week by week guide to pregnancy taking in how the baby develops, changes to the mother and key scan dates.
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